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You are a seasoned cloud technologist and trusted advisor with deep expertise in Azure and DevOps practices. You are comfortable leading technical teams while engaging senior business stakeholders and executives. You bring strong consulting, communication, and leadership skills, and are adept at shaping technology strategy, defining architecture, and guiding clients through complex cloud transformation initiatives.
Our Managers lead the design and delivery of sustainable cloud and DevOps solutions, working closely with clients, architects, and delivery teams to maximise the value of Microsoft Azure. You will be responsible for shaping solution direction, providing architectural leadership, and ensuring delivery excellence across engagements.
You will operate across the full lifecycle — from pre‑sales and solution shaping through architecture, implementation oversight, and operational transition — while mentoring consultants and analysts and driving best practice adoption.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the design and governance of DevOps CI/CD strategies and enterprise delivery pipelines.
* Architect and oversee implementation of Azure cloud solutions aligned to client business and technology strategies.
* Define and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and DevOps practices across Azure environments.
* Provide technical leadership across project teams from requirements through architecture, delivery oversight, and operational handover.
* Design secure, scalable, and resilient Azure architectures for modern workloads.
* Lead technical assessments and cloud adoption strategies for customers moving to Azure.
* Conduct architectural and technical reviews to ensure solutions meet security, compliance, performance, and business objectives.
* Mentor and guide analysts and consultants in delivery and capability development.
* Contribute to pre‑sales activities including solution shaping, estimations, proposals, and client presentations.
A vanade is growing, and weseek passionate and driven technology professionals to join our Managed Services team delivering continuous value to our client’s businesses.
Qualifications
We are seeking a cloud security support engineer with a background in Azure Platform support. The role requires professional experience within security engineering and a strong background in certification, accreditation, and the support of robust security frameworks within complex ICT environments.
Core to the role You will be knowledgeable in Australian Government information assurance requirements, including the Information Security Manual (ISM), NIST CSF2.0 and Essential 8 ML2.
We also need you to have experience across a variety of technologies that may include:
* Proven expertise with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Sentinel.
* Microsoft Defender suite, Azure Security Center, Sentinel SIEM, Cloud security & data logging (Azure), Incident response, Cryptography, Network and System security.
* Experience with Security Copilot (highly regarded).
* Hands‑on experience with Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Log Management/Analysis.
* Hands‑on experience managing security infrastructure (firewalls, IPSs, WAFs, endpoint protection, SIEM, log management, Zscaler, Proofpoint).
* Proven experience in reviewing security vulnerabilities.
* Proficiency with vulnerability management toolsets.
* Understanding of IT service management (ITIL disciplines: change, configuration, asset, incident, problem management).
* Experience and understanding of how applications, services and infrastructure are deployed into public cloud services (Microsoft Azure).
The successful candidate will have strong communication skills to clearly explain security issues to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Have familiarity with current cybersecurity trends such as Zero Trust, Extended Detection and Response (XDR), or AI‑driven security analytics. And will have experience being responsible for incident response coordination, investigation, and remediation, as well as staying current with threat intelligence to proactively defend against emerging threats.
Consultant, Digital Advisory / Security Consultant
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